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it is impossible to tell what a given sam¬ 
ple will be like in a year or two years ex¬ 
cept by keeping it that long to see. 
In the meantime we are meeting with 
considerable discouragement from those 
who believe that a clear, dark juice, is a 
better commercial proposition than a nat¬ 
ural juice. They tell us that our labor 
is all in vain, since it is a relatively easy 
matter to produce, the first mentioned 
product. We, are open to conviction on 
this point and should like to get an ex¬ 
pression of opinion from those present 
as to what our goal should be. We have 
asked advice from many people but find 
ourselves almost as badly puzzled as a 
certain man about whom I have heard. 
This man had a little too much to drink— 
and it wasn’t grapefruit juice either. He 
approached a passerby with the query, 
“Misther, can you tell me where ish the 
other side of the street?” “Why, of 
course, you simpleton, its right over 
there!” “Ish that so?, the blanked fool 
over there told me thish was it!” 
Dfr*. Fairchild: I hate to see an oppor¬ 
tunity go by to talk about so interesting 
a subject as drinks. It is a fact that the 
manufacturers of beer for generations at¬ 
tempted and in many countries unsuccess¬ 
fully to get perfectly clear beer. The 
German beer very seldom kept at a low 
temperature, a temperature at which it is 
kept in this country. As I understand it, 
when the Americans went into the beer 
business they ran into the difficulty of a 
low temperature and it took a great deal 
of experimenting to get rid of that cloud¬ 
iness. I think you will find it pretty dif¬ 
ficult to get uniform cloudiness in drinks. 
C. E. Calkins: I may say that we 
found a better sale for the clear than for 
the natural but I don’t recommend the 
drink. So many people say that “This 
is so weak and insipid looking—that is 
for women and children.” The public 
know nothing about what grapefruit juice 
looks like—don’t want it. That is not 
the stuff they want to drink and the real 
point it seems to me in this connection is 
that juice like this does not lose any of 
its flavor, but a clear juice without any 
coloring or cloudiness either, does look 
insipid, more so than the natural juice it 
seems to me. 
